gredelin

Swedish

Etymology

Borrowed from French gridelin.

Adjective

gredelin (not comparable)

  1. (color, now rare) (light) lavender
    gredelin:  

Usage notes

  • Kind of a faded, creamy purple.
  • Still fairly well known, mostly from a character "tant Gredelin" ("Aunt Lavender" in the English translation) appearing in a series of storybooks by Elsa Beskow.

Declension

Inflection of gredelin
Indefinite positive comparative superlative1
common singular gredelin — —
neuter singular gredelint — —
plural gredelina — —
masculine plural2 gredeline — —
Definite positive comparative superlative
masculine singular3 gredeline — —
all gredelina — —

1 The indefinite superlative forms are only used in the predicative.
2 Dated or archaic.
3 Only used, optionally, to refer to things whose natural gender is masculine.

See also

Colors in Swedish · färger (layout · text)
     vit      grå      svart
             röd; karmosin, karmosinröd, blodröd              orange (common), brandgul (now uncommon); brun              gul; beige
             limegrön              grön              mintgrön
             turkos (common), cyan (rare); blågrön, teal              himmelsblå, azur              blå
             lila, violett, gredelin (light lavender, now uncommon); indigo              magenta; purpur              rosa (common), skär (uncommon)

References

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